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Turiba University Sets World Record With 1,911 Simultaneous Coke-Mentos Explosions

Some people celebrate anniversaries with food, or a little dancing, but Business University Turiba in Latvia decided to have a little fun with a Gizmodo favorite: the ol' Mento in the Coke reaction. For the school's 15th anniversary, the students set out the break the previous world record for this category, which was held by 1,499 Belgian students in the town of Leuven. Last Thursday, they succeeded, and the contents of 1,911 bottles of Coke were sprayed violently upward, and into history. More »

10:00 AM on Sat Jun 21 2008
By Jack Loftus
18,722 views, 34 comments

Latest by knottydon: Good thing Coke is dark colored. if it's white, I'd think it's simultaneous orgasm. more »

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Science Team Explains Why Mentos + Coke = Whoosh!

You should, by now, be very familiar with the Mentos and Coke explosion effect. After all, we've even shown how to make your own booby trap version. But did you know that parts of the science behind it were a mystery? Until now, that is. A physics team at Appalachian State University did a whole range of tests, varying the substance dropped in from Fruit Mentos to dishwasher detergent and checking all the Coke types. Serious science stuff. More »

10:00 AM on Thu Jun 12 2008
By Kit Eaton
10,719 views, 50 comments

Latest by Barion: Did the Mythbusters team publish a paper in a peer-reviewed journal? You can't cite a TV show in a literature review or bibliography. It has to be written in a paper or monograph for it to be considered more »

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Blow Victims Away with Mentos and Coke Booby Trap

That sound you are hearing is thousands of people screaming after falling for this Mentos and Diet Coke booby trap. And the sound you will hear soon will be the screams of the people who did the traps, as the joke victims beat the crap out of them. [Instructables] More »

8:00 AM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Jesus Diaz
31,657 views, 71 comments

Latest by michaelleung: Because the word BOOBY! LOL man, i'm not funny. more »

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Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

Giz reader Robert Woodhead combined two things that I just can't seem to get sick of seeing: Stuffing Mentos into Diet Coke bottles and the super-slow-mo action of Casio's EX-F1 camera to create this stunningly beautiful video. More »

1:30 PM on Sun May 4 2008
By Benny Goldman
189,223 views, 61 comments

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Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

Here's what you do when you're a student in the Belgian town of Leuven. You don a blue plastic poncho alongside 1,499 undergraduates, all standing in line at very long table, on which is placed a bottle of Diet Coke and a Mento. On the count of three, having raised your hood, you drop the mint in the plastic bottle, and 1,500 fountains of sticky drink erupt simultaneously. More pics below. Update: We've stuck a video up there, as well. More »

5:25 AM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By AddyDugdale
59,166 views, 63 comments

Latest by smeee: Take 4 bottles of bubble mixture, dump them into a fountain, stand back and watch. more »